Language+Arts+Tools


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Tools and apps are created daily. All are fantastic for some purpose and some audiences. All work well for some folks. That does not mean that all will work well for you, your classroom or your students. Explore, create your own list of tools. Categorize them for easier reference. Categories will emerge and change over time.

wikispaces Livebindes
 * Sites to Organize your materials**

Figment SAS Curriculum Pathways 15+ Resources to Inspire Writing with Digital Prompts Writing exercises and prompts
 * Writing Tools**

Good Reads TeachingBooks.net
 * Book Reviews**

Reading Rewards
 * Reading Logs**

[|Top 10 ways to use technology to promote reading] Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
 * Promoting Reading**

Article on how to find articles at various reading levels.
 * Reading Levels**

ReadWorks LearnZillion The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels” Early literacy -- 3 Tech Tools That Boost Early Literacy
 * Reading Lessons**

Kahn Academy?
 * Tutorials**

Free Rice
 * Quiz Sites**

Ngrams (graph how frequently words are used) What our Words Tell Us (an editorial discussing how word usage has changed over time, only the first half pertains to our discussion)
 * Word Usage**

[|NoRedInk gets $2M led by Google Ventures to turn kids into grammar geeks (article)] NoRedInk Grammar songs Practice Grammar With Technology Big Dog's Grammar: A bare bones guide to English Let 'Weird Al' Yankovic Teach Your Students Grammar National Punctuation Day (Sept 24) website Grammarly Madlibs English Grammar Aids for Both Native Speakers and Students
 * Grammar Tools**

A Glossary of Poetry Terms for Students Creating Poetry on your iPad
 * Poetry Tools**

Yes, many elementary teachers have to teach typing. To be the school typing teacher you need a Business Teacher license. However, you can teach typing to just the students in your classroom as an elementary teacher. The WEMTA listserv often asks what programs are working well. Here are a few: [|Typing Club] typingagent.com (it claims to work on the iPads but we have not tried it out yet) Tap Typing is a good app for iPads. 12 Great Free Keyboarding Games to Teach Kids Typing
 * Typing Programs**


 * Screen Readers**
 * Select and Speak** is a **free Chrome app** that can be added to the Google browser to help students listen to text read aloud to them from the Internet. The voice has gotten more human and less robotic over the years. The speed can be adjusted and students can choose to listen to the text in a male or female voice. Since I first discovered Select and Speak, there are now many more such programs. Two competing text-to-speak programs, also free apps students can download on Chrome, are Announcify and Speak It! These apps only work with the Internet, so for students typing in Word, Microsoft has a command that can be added to the tool bar that will read Word Docs aloud. All the programs above are really useful for scaffolding reading for English learners by making the task of reading text easier. - See more at: http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=8596#sthash.m76Xv9oH.dpuf

dyslexiefont.com
 * Dyslexia Fonts**

Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
 * Videos**

Create graphs and complex math equations directly from the Google Docs sidebar with g(Math)
 * Math add-on for Google Docs**